Along with STSF, figured I'd bring up something else that I've heard people comment about, and I agree with the bitching.

From what I get out of this spell, it bypasses armor easier, letting you land the maledicting needles easier. Compare this to wounding needles, which makes those needles last longer. From this, I would have thought the purpose of these was to increase it's maledictive potential.

In reality, my experience has been that this edge is allowing it to bypass armor, giving you the maledictions easier *AND* since it has bypassed your armor, gives you the damage bonus. I honestly don't know many fights I had with Nizi that he didn't use this spell, and this spell alone.

Both from it's companion edge, and even it's title, I would have expected something more along the lines of piercing armor, giving you the maledictions, but not recieving the damage bonus. Like...sharper needles that penetrate better, but they're still going through hard armor, so lose their damaging force.

Now, my question is...firstly, is my judgement in error and this spell isn't doing any more damage than normal? And secondly, if it is doing more damage than w/o the edge *AND* giving maledictions more readily, is that the purpose of this edge?